5793 - 6157 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
= Interesting and attractive drawing. Temporary buildings can be seen, housing various attractions i.a. a show with scenes from the battle of Waterloo and sea battle of Algiers, a menagerie and acrobats. Also some streetvendors, i.a. a 'poffertjeskraam' near to the left. On one of the buildings to the right pamphlets and announcements are attached, i.a. for the Menagerie van Aken, which was based in Rotterdam. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVII.
- Browned; closed tear in right edge; a few imperfections to the surface.
- Paper agetoned and fingersoiled.
= Attribution (?) on verso "Breuhaus de Groot' in pencil. Sketches of coastlines of i.a. Terschelling, Vlieland, Earholm, Kattegat near Kolding.
- Somewhat duststained.
= On laid paper with French lily coat of arms and GVH monogram. With the collector's marks of D.P. Brondgeest: stamped mark on the mount (Lugt 4331) and manuscript monograms and topographical identification on verso in pencil and red pen and ink. Zuilenstein was bombed and destroyed in W.W. II.
- Sl. agetoned and dustsoiled.
= With the collector's mark of Joseph-Guillaume-Jean Camberlyn (1783-1861). His collection was sold in three parts in 1865 and 1867 by Guichardot, Paris. This drawing was sold as lot 91 (section of drawings) in the November sale of 1865. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.
- Most drawings in very fine condition, some with the following minor defects: some smudging; occas. trifle/ sl. foxed in outer blank margin; 2 drawings w. sm. tear in inner blank margin (not affecting the watercolour); a few lvs. fingersoiled in outer blank margin. Bookblock loose; heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown.
= The skilfully executed and beautiful drawings bear strong resemblance to the 18th and 19th century drawings of butterflies by J.C. or J. Sepp or A.J. Rösel van Rosenhof. The main focus of the drawings is on the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into the butterfly. All on paper with "J. Honig & Zoonen", "J. Kool", "De Ervens Dk Blauw", "J. Kloppenburg", "Van Gelder", a beehive w. Orange tree or the Pro Patria (2 diff. types) watermark. With a silhouette portrait drawing frontisp. of probably the original owner W.D.V. de Graaf (1762-1846), a Utrecht pharmacist. On the backstrip his name and title "Inlandsche Kapellen" are given.Came into possession of the present owner by descent. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXX.
- Both w. traces of former mounting in blank margins and on verso. = With watermark of a lion.
- Foxed; sm. portion (w. stamp) of lower right corner detached.
= With the mark on the drawings and the ticket of the artist's atelier auction on the mounts (Paris, 1865, lots 369 and 361) (Lugt 426a).
= Amateur artist and civil servant. Son of famous physician P. Camper.
= Nice cartoon, expressing the futuristic idea that a long distance connection by telephone could be created between the UK and Africa. The conversation between on the one hand a native African servant holding the phone for his master (who is lying in a hammock surrounded by mosquitos) and on the other hand an Englishman sleeping in London results in the complaint from Africa that his master cannot sleep because of the loud snoring of the Englishman's wife and the Englishman complaining that he cannot hear anything because of the noise that the mosquitos make. Monogrammist not traced.
= Tipped under passepartout w. mounted exhib. ticket of the Singer Memorial Foundation Laren.
Lessore, E.A. (1805-1876) (attrib.). (Domestic scene). Sketch in pen and brown ink (w. some wash), 12,4x22,5 cm.
- Foxed. = With the collector's stamp of C.W.A. Buma (Lugt 494a) in red in lower left corner recto.
- Sl. foxed.
Soer, C. (1882-1961) (attrib.). (Gevangenpoort in Bergen op Zoom). Drawing, black and red chalk and grey wash, 30,5x24 cm. - AND 2 sm. drawings by J.H. VAN MASTENBROEK: "Hoofdtoren Hoorn" (monogrammed and "19 Okt 99") and a view in Utrecht of the Weerdsluis (attrib.).
- Laid down on board; horizontal fold; soiled near left edge; hole in lower right corner; corners trimmed.
= A vague signature or annotation in pen and ink shining through, "R. Corbould" (in reverse and up-side-down). Probably a design for an illustration. A very sketchy profile of London in pencil in the centre.
- Yellowed; sl. soiled.
= Provenance: the collection of J. and C. Ulmann. With the collector's mark of Dr. Max A. Goldstein (Lugt 2824) on verso.
- Sl. foxed.
- Varnish darkened.
- Yellowed. = With many adjustments compared to the original.
- A few sm. brown spots.
= Provenance: auctioned at Frederik Muller, december 1913 (lot 537); London at E. Parson & son, 1925 (cat. no.43, lot 176); Paul Brandt, Nov/ Dec. 1982 (lot no.989). With annotation "P. Molyn" on verso, whose style is very similar. On laid paper with double watermark of a foolscap and a bunch of grapes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVIII.
- Some sl. foxing and handling creases. = With the collector's mark of Albert van Loock on verso (Lugt 3751).